Five Standards for Effective Teaching: How to Succeed with All Learners, Grades K-8 [Paperback]

Based on a proven instructional model distilled over years of research, this book focuses on five essential pedagogy standards for guiding teaching practice in classrooms with diverse students, including English learners. Providing key indicators for each standard along with the theoretical rationale and best practice strategies, the book offers teachers invaluable guidance for enhancing language, literacy, thinking, and content learning across the curricula. It also provides advice on creating classroom groupings for differentiating lessons and activities and includes extensive examples of practices from real-life classrooms.

Stephanie Stoll Dalton, Ed.D., has taught diverse students from first to twelfth grade, community college, and as a teacher educator. She has consulted widely on teacher quality. She is currently with the U.S. Department of Education

Preface ix

The Author xv

Part One Understanding the Standards

One Effective Teaching and Pedagogy 2

Two Evidence: Scientific Support for Five Standards 22

Part Two Implementing the Standards

Three Teacher and Students Producing Together (Standard I) 50

Four Developing Language and Literacy (Standard II) 96

Five Connecting Learning to Students Worlds (Standard III) 132

Six Challenging Students Thinking (Standard IV) 158

Seven Using Instructional Conversation (Standard V) 188

Eight The Five Standards Integrated: How to Teach Effectively 220

Appendixes

1A Five Standards of Pedagogy with Classroom Indicators 247

3A Timing Instructional Frames 250

3B Guidelines for Organl#*